| A Day and a Night at the Baths Revised Edition Contributor(s): Rumaker, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0982807406 ISBN-13: 9780982807408 Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Erotica - Lgbt - Gay |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| LCCN: 2010029302 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.08" W x 7.8" (0.29 lbs) 146 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The dates are important to mention in order to put the open sensuality in the novel in perspective., that is, pre-AIDS, when male-male sexuality was being liberated from its centuries-long subterranean hiddenness into a visibility if only, in this instance, of the twilit and claustrophobic "freedom" of a bath house. (M.R. from the intro) |
Contributor Bio(s): Rumaker, Michael: - Michael Rumaker is an American author (born March 5, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA), to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his life as a gay man. His first book, The Butterfly, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous. His short stories, Gringos and Other Stories, appeared in 1967. A revised and expanded version appeared in 1991. He began to write directly about his life as a gay man in the volumes A Day and a Night at the Baths (1979) and MY FIRST SATYRNALIA (1981). The novel Pagan Days (1991) is told from the perspective of an eight-year old boy struggling to understand his gay self. Black Mountain Days, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element In addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty, and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) during its last years, 1952-1956. |